Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. Youre watching cnn newsroom. And im rosemary church. Just ahead, Donald Trumps legal battles picking up steam. As his lawyers push back on a request to limit what the former u. S. President can say about the election interference case against him. Severe storms roll across the eastern u. S. , tearing down trees and toppling power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands in the dark. And police in montgomery, alabama, are promising to make arrests after a massive brawl broke out along the citys riverfront. Good to have you with us. The drug in dumps election subversion case is moving quickly. She wants to have a hearing on how to handle evidence and what trump can say about the case. Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys are facing a 3 00 p. M. Eastern deadline today to come up with options. The Justice Department wants restrictions on trump, fearing he could disclose Sensitive Information or intimid
Weeks. And in georgia, the county judge just rejected efforts by trumps legal team to toss evidence in that criminal investigation. Were ready to go. The work is accomplished. The former Business Associate of Hunter Bidens testified before a closed door congressional hearing. Devin archer said that hunter biden sold the, quote, Illusion Of Access to his father. Everyday this Bribery Scandal becomes more credible. Theres a lot of smoke and where theres smoke theres fire. Theres no evidence linking joe biden to anything related to hunter biden. Russian officials are accusing ukraine of launching a new wave of Drone Strikes in moscow. One crashed into a highrise tower. Ukraine is getting stronger, gradually the war is returning to the territory of russia. Quite why the russians are fighting so hard for here is that these are their last lines of defense . Well, no. They think theres far more fighting to be done. The wife of suspected Serial Killer Rex Heuermann revealing her two Adult Chil
getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered
investigating the insurrection. and remembering the queen. the coffin will be taken to buk in london. right now king charles and the queen consort are in northern island as thousands pay tribute to the queen. we ll take you there live. and another story we continue to follow. ukrainian forces taking back more and more their territory. president zelenskyy said his country has reca recaptured 230 miles of land. this highlighting how quickly they were able to push out russian occupiers. russia is fighting back. launching heavy shelling that knocked out power in the city of kharkiv this morning. let s begin with the latest from ukraine. melissa bell filed this report from inside of kharkiv. there was a very clever communication about the counter offensive in the south. ahead of its beginning on the 29th of august. and then just about a week ago, the beginning of that eastern counter offensive up here in kharkiv that appears to have wrong-footed russian forces. but there is al
the lightning advanced that ukraine is making in reclaiming territory seized by russian forces. today president zelenskyy said his military has liberated 2300 square miles since the beginning of this month. while it is not really possible to verify these exact numbers and these images of ukrainian flags being raised in several villages in the east and the south. they re circulating widely. we re also following big economic news happening as we speak. u.s. stocks down sharply at this hour. following new inflation data. we ll have much more on all of that in a moment. but let s begin with stan kylely live in kharkiv. what is the latest? reporter: well the latest is that in spite of this very rapid and success advance, 6,000 kilometers captured in the north or recaptured in the north and south of the country, the russians have hit back. they ve hit back by taking out the power supplies in kharkiv province. it is power cut here in kharkiv city. but i could say, also, that it